#staff | Logs for 2016-10-21

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[14:00:24]zz_janrinok is now known as janrinok[18:27:32]<janrinok> News in UK is that there is a large scale DDoS currently in progress affecting Netflix, Twitter, PayPal and eBay. Could tie into our site being hammered a few hours back?
[18:29:57]<janrinok>http://www.independent.co.uk[18:30:44]<chromas> Heh, I can't even resolve that link
[18:31:06]<janrinok> works for me
[18:31:41]<chromas> It immediately redirects ( via Charter DNS hijacking thing) to a search result with that link as the first result
[18:32:03]<janrinok> "Almost every major service that isn't part of a major internet provider seemed to be having issues. As such, Google and Facebook appeared to stay up – but almost everything else was down, according to Down Detector's dashboard."
[18:32:35]<janrinok> "
[18:32:35]<janrinok> An ongoing internet outage appears to be spreading and taking down many of the world's biggest websites.
[18:32:35]<janrinok> Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by the outage.
[18:32:35]<janrinok> Almost every major service that isn't part of a major internet provider seemed to be having issues. As such, Google and Facebook appeared to stay up – but almost everything else was down, according to Down Detector's dashboard.
[18:32:37]<janrinok> Gadgets and tech news in pictures
[18:32:39]<janrinok> 34 show all
[18:32:41]<janrinok> The issue is thought to stem from widespread internet disruption that is the result of attacks on some of the infrastructure that powers the internet. For much of the day a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been launched on one of the world's biggest internet companies, leading many people to lose access to specific sites or to the internet entirely.
[18:32:48]<janrinok> "
[18:34:05]<janrinok> exec managed to understand that link on #soylent
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